Britain's airlines and holiday companies are planning a "day of action" on Wednesday to ramp up pressure on the government to ease travel restrictions, with just weeks to go before the start of the peak summer season, Reuters reports.

On Wednesday, June 23, pilots, cabin crew and travel agents will gather in Westminster, central London, and at airports across Britain to try to drum up support. Britain's aviation industry has been harder hit by the pandemic than its European peers, according to data published by the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa).

"There is no time to hide behind task forces and reviews," said Balpa general secretary Brian Strutton.

"Balpa is demanding that the UK government gets its act together and opens the US routes and European holiday travel destinations that it has blocked with no published evidence at all."